Whenever I go anywhere I am always looking at trees with larceny in mind. I travel with Audubon field guide to North American trees. Sometimes I am rubbernecking so bad I have almost rear ended cars. I'm surprised nobody has called the cops on me as I'm standing in their front yards calculating how much lumber I can get out of their landscaping. I can't help but think I am not the only one

I know where every Osage tree is in SW Pa:)

What Roy ?? Old age Tree   

I used to be like you and I have access  to hundreds of acres to hunt trees but over time with all the work and time and drying and debarking milling etc. I got lazy so now all I cut is osage or parts of a tree I could make excuses but the truth is the older I get the more lazy I am to cutting trees 

It's a sickness. I have it too. I
Can't pass a nice looking tree without wondering what it looks like on the inside. Especially the gnarly ones.
Dave.

I have got a little better over the years, I used to carry wood for miles out of the mountains.
Can't endure that kind of suffer fest these days

Ya old fart:)

Quote from: Roy from Pa on April 30, 2019, 05:40:49 AM
Ya old fart:)

"It's not the years, it's the mileage" 

Of course as soon as I posted about not hauling trees out of the woods, I got to thinking about doing just that
Did not want you guys to think I was some kind of wussy boy.
Humped this chunk about 3.5mi out of the mountains. Must have switched shoulders about 50 times. Feeling it today
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Heck I could carry that wif one hand ya wussy boy:)

What's all the straw for, ya maken straw hats and skirts too?

Quote from: Roy from Pa on May 01, 2019, 01:27:39 PM
Heck I could carry that wif one hand ya wussy boy:)

Who's hand would you be using for that feat? 

Those Yew logs are heavy, I have had sore shoulders many times myself and they often grow in remote hard to get to places. Nice catch.

I was lucky with these two very nice Ash trees, I could back my car right up to the spot.

Quote from: Flem on May 01, 2019, 01:13:35 PM
Of course as soon as I posted about not hauling trees out of the woods, I got to thinking about doing just that
Did not want you guys to think I was some kind of wussy boy.
Humped this chunk about 3.5mi out of the mountains. Must have switched shoulders about 50 times. Feeling it today
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That's impressive sir.  I carried some really heavy live oak, but maybe 1/4 a mile on flat ground.  And I thought that was bad.

I don't think ash gets much better than that Bue

Thats some clean Ash Bue. I've got some Oregon Ash I carried a couple of miles.
I think I would have made a good Penitente.
Roy, I did carry that sucker with one hand......one at a time that is:bigsmyl:
I'm taking orders for straw skirts, if anybody wants one for summer. Not sure how they would look with Pink Chaps

Bue, did you split that Ash or rip it on your bandsaw?

I split it, came apart very easy. I usually cut Ash when the sap goes, then bark comes off very easy and there is a full ring of summer growth from last year. Have a perfect back then. I will take it to smaller sections on the bandsaw.

Very nice, Bue.

Clem, it didn't happen wifout pichers.